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Upcoming Retreats

Family Camp 2025

July 24 - 27, 2025
This EVENT is CURRENTLY FULL, please join us for Family Camp 2026! A weekend family retreat where participants are given the opportunity to better understand their mind and emotions through a Tibetan Buddhist lens using meditation, discussion, art, nature and play. Set in the redwood forests of the Santa Cruz Mountains, families with children ages 5-12 are encouraged to unplug and reconnect, supported by a community of like-minded families, staff, and volunteers.   First Time at Family Camp? Read all about what to expect at Family Camp at our Family Camp details page              …

Cultivating Compassion in Daily Life: A Weekend Retreat

Serkong Tsenshap Rinpoche II and Dr. Alexander Berzin

August 15 - 17, 2025
***Retreat Update: Expanded Weekend with Serkong Tsenshap Rinpoche II and Dr. Alexander Berzin**   We’re delighted to share that what was originally planned as a daylong retreat with Serkong Tsenshap Rinpoche II has been expanded into a full weekend retreat! This allows for additional teaching time with Rinpoche! We’re also honored to welcome Dr. Alexander Berzin, who will offer a public talk and Q&A on Sunday. We are incredibly fortunate to welcome the highly revered lama, Serkong Tsenshap Rinpoche II, back to Vajrapani for this very special hybrid weekend program! Rinpoche is known for his warmth and humor as well as…

How to Train a Happy Mind

Scott Snibbe

August 28 - 31, 2025
Based on his popular book How to Train a Happy Mind, this three-day retreat with Scott Snibbe offers a relaxed tour of eight meditations that help bring out your best qualities, deepen your relationships, and build a better world.   Each of the retreat’s practices is derived from the Tibetan Buddhist lamrim “stages of the path,” a series of analytical meditations highly refined over the centuries. This lesser-known form of meditation complements the more popular mindfulness meditation by using stories, emotions, and critical thinking to actively steer the mind away from frustration, craving, and loneliness, and toward happiness, connection, and satisfaction.   The retreat requires no…

Six Session Guru Yoga Weekend ONLY

Venerable René Feusi

September 12 - 14, 2025
About the Retreat We are overjoyed that one of our most precious teachers, Venerable René Fuesi, is returning to Vajrapani in September!   Six Session Guru Yoga Weekend With any HYT initiation in our tradition, there is a commitment to do the six sessions of guru yoga, but many have never received instruction. Venerable Rene thought it could be nice and useful to explain how to meditate on it in this Six Session Guru Yoga Weekend before starting the Shiné - Mahamudra portion of the retreat.   Venerable René will teach from Friday, Sept 12 evening through Sunday, Sept 14…

Six Session Guru Yoga & Shiné – Mahamudra

Venerable René Feusi

September 12 - 21, 2025
We are overjoyed that one of our most precious teachers, Venerable René Fuesi, is returning to Vajrapani in September! Ven. René's retreats are known to be deeply transformative as he invites us to inquire into the nature of the mind. Join us as Ven René creates this rare opportunity to get to know our minds and to learn how to meditate more deeply in this immersive 10-Day Retreat.    Six Session Guru Yoga Weekend With any Highest Yoga Tantra initiation in our tradition, there is a commitment to do the Six- Session Guru Yoga, but many have never received formal…

Shiné – Mahamudra Week ONLY

Venerable René Feusi

September 14 - 21, 2025
About the Retreat We are overjoyed that one of our most precious teachers, Venerable René Fuesi, is returning to Vajrapani in September. Ven. René is creating a rare opportunity to learn how to meditate more deeply in this immersive retreat.   Shiné - Mahamudra Venerable René will start the Shiné - Mahamudra portion of the retreat in the evening on Sunday, Sept 14th, ending at lunch on Sept 21st. This part of the retreat is open to all levels of students. No initiations are necessary.   Mahamudra Retreat “Nowadays, we try to take good care of our health, as we…

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